Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

10.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

11.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

14.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

15.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

16.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

17.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

18.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

19.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

21.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

22.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

23.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

25.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

26.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

27.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

28.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

29.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

31.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

32.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

34.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

35.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

37.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

38.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

39.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

40.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

42.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

43.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

44.

Make friends before you need them

45.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

46.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

48.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

49.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

50.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace